Tag: Nigeria

Nigeria’s central bank has limited weekly over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals and corporates to 100,000 naira ($225; £186) and 500,000 naira ($1,125; £928) respectively. This...

Many Nigerians are angry and disappointed after a presidential candidate made a rare media appearance on Monday at Chatham House, a UK-based think tank. Bola...

Tope Awotona, the 40-year-old CEO and co-founder of the digital company Calendly who was born in Nigeria, is the newest African to enter the...

Gunmen abducted 19 Muslim worshippers after attacking a mosque in the restive northwest of Nigeria, police said Sunday November 4. The attackers stormed the mosque...

Football fanatics in Nigeria have reacted to Otto Addo’s decision to step down as coach of the Black Stars after World Cup exit. The Black...

17 owners of private aircraft, including billionaires from Nigeria, top commercial institutions, and other extremely wealthy people, have filed lawsuits against the Nigerian government...

According to a new research from the International Credit Corporation (IFC) and the World Trade Organization, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Senegal may make...

The Borno State Government said yesterday that 90% of die-hard Boko Haram insurgents were dead, and it attributed the sect's mass surrender to the...

Ekpe Ogbu, the state of Benue's housing and urban development commissioner, has been kidnapped. The Commissioner was kidnapped around 4 p.m. on Sunday at the notorious Adankari Junction on the Otukpo-Ado Road. On Sunday night, Colonel Paul Hemba, Governor Samuel Ortom's security advisor, confirmed the incident to reporters. He said that while rescue efforts have started and the police...

An essential train link between Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and the northern city of Kaduna is set to reopen on Monday, nine months after it was...